Quadrature and Single-Channel Low-Cost Monostatic Radar Based on a Novel 2-Port Transceiver Chain

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Abstract
A new radar architecture that features a compact size and only one RF active device was designed, fabricated, and tested for small motion detection and human range tracking. Unlike conventional board level radar systems, it contains a single antenna and does not use any low noise amplifier (LNA) or circulator in the RF front-end. The I/Q amplitude and phase imbalance present on the system were measured to be <1% and 5.17°, respectively. Besides the local oscillator (LO), there is no other active device consuming dc power. The fabricated radar system has dimensions of 36 mm × 72 mm (L×W) and a power consumption of 290 mW in continuous operation. Moreover, a 24-GHz single channel radar system was designed, fabricated, and tested using the proposed architecture. The dimensions of fabricated board are 24 mm × 27 mm (L×W) and total power consumption of 800 mW dissipated by the local oscillator. The range tracking capabilities of the implemented radar systems were demonstrated by successfully tracking the range of a human target walking back and forth on a hallway. Moreover, the high sensitivity of the proposed quadrature 2-port monostatic Doppler radar was demonstrated by effectively measuring a sinusoidal movement with an amplitude of 2.5 μm with a 5.8-GHz carrier.
Funding Information
  • National Science Foundation (ECCS-2030094, ECCS-2112003)

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